TWO Filipino informers responsible for providing information that led to the arrest of a suspected Muslim terrorist leader walked away from the US Embassy Wednesday morning with a total of 500,000 dollars as their reward.
At a press conference, US Ambassador Kristie Kenney said, “Washington evaluated the information and the importance of information given out.”
Kenney praised the “two very brave patriots for their actions and information,” which led to the arrest of a “vicious terrorist.” “They deserve the reward...This is to encourage citizens to come forward with information that would lead to the arrest of terrorist,” she added. Kenney refused to comment about the background of the two, when asked if they were law enforcers.
The US embassy had said that the two tipsters were responsible for information that led to the arrest of Hilarion del Rosario Santos III, alias Ahmed Santos.
Asked if the reward did not constitute sub judice, Ricardo Blancaflor, undersecretary of the National Security Council, said the reward was not meant to influence the outcome of the still unresolved court case against Santos.
Santos, a founding member of the Rajah Solaiman Movement for Filipino converts to the Muslim faith, was arrested on Oct. 26, 2005 in Santo Nino, Zamboanga City. He allegedly set up a training camp in his family's property in Pangasinan, where an Al-Qaeda suicide cell supposedly trained before the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks in the United States.
Blancaflor said the government did not know if Santos had been replaced in the terrorist group.
Santos has also been linked to the Superferry bombing in February 2004 and the simultaneous Valentine's Day bombings last year.
According to the US embassy fact sheet, in the last seven years, the US government's Rewards for Justice Program has paid over 62 million dollars to people who have helped put terrorists behind bars.
source: INQ7.net
happy month end!
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Wednesday, May 31, 2006
INQ7 breaking news
Friday, May 26, 2006
bash script - add thousands system users
#!/bin/bash
#may 26 2006
passfile=test.txt
n=1
rm -rf go #delete any go file
echo "#!/bin/bash" >> go # prepare file to be as bash script file
for name in $(awk 'BEGIN {FS=":"}{print $1}' < "$passfile" ) #parse input file separated by :
do
array1[$n]=$name #and store them to arrays
let "n += 1" # grade 1
done # end of for loop
n=1
for name in $(awk 'BEGIN {FS=":"}{print $2}' < "$passfile" )
do
array2[$n]=$name
let "n += 1"
done
n=1
for name in $(awk 'BEGIN {FS=":"}{print $3}' < "$passfile" )
do
array3[$n]=$name
let "n += 1"
done
i=0
for ((i=1; i<n; i++))
do
echo ${array1[$i]} # prints username
echo ${array2[$i]} # as well as password
echo ${array3[$i]} # then comment name or ID name
echo "useradd -d /home/${array1[$i]} ${array1[$i]} -p ${array1[$i]} -s /bin/false -c ' ${array3[$i]} '" >> go
done
chmod 755 go # make it bash executable
./go # now execute it
exit 0
#############
comment:
customized input file: test.txt
contains:
uname:pword:Super_Man
test1:pword2:JOHN_TAMAD
test2:testpass2:testname2
test3:testpass3:testname3
***note of UNDERSCORE as Full Name field
output file: go (executable bash script)remarks: script will process input file, save output to output file and execute the output file
** user group were not included when adding
application:
reduced finger tiredness, copy and paste
Thursday, May 25, 2006
widescreen and high-definition displays
What does widescreen mean?
A widescreen (or wide aspect display) refers to the width-to-height ratio of the PC or TV panel. Standard displays have a 4:3 ratio, whereas widescreen displays have a ratio of approximately 16:9 (actual ratio may vary slightly by model).
What does high-definition mean?
High-definition displays support a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels or higher. They’re capable of displaying high-resolution content without compromising video information, which allows for full viewing of realistic images and more visible information in documents. All HP 14", 15.4" and 17.0" widescreen displays support high-definition content.
When compared with a standard 15" XGA (1024 x 768) display, a 14" widescreen WXGA (1280 x 768) provides 25 percent more screen information, and a 15.4" widescreen WXGA (1280 x 800) provides 30 percent more information. With a 17" widescreen you get as much as 65 percent more information on the screen.
What are the benefits of widescreen and high-definition displays?
Digital entertainment: The widescreen, which is better for viewing DVD movies, is Hollywood’s format of choice. The black border around the DVD playback screen is minimal, if not eliminated.
Digital photography: A widescreen is better for viewing panoramic pictures; it also allows more thumbnails to be displayed on the screen. Plus, the photo editing toolbar fits on the screen.
Games: High-resolution game applications can display more-realistic characters on a high-definition widescreen, making for a more enjoyable experience.
Enhanced productivity: High resolution supplies more screen real estate so you can fit more windows side by side without overlapping, and spend less time scrolling and toggling between windows.
Note: High-definition content (e.g., WMV HD files) is required for viewing high-definition images. Most current DVDs do not provide high-definition content.
actual: go get a new screen!
sources: compaq/hp
Friday, May 19, 2006
naive evolutionary existence
been spidering the web, checking some of my old native online journals before, crawling these more-than-a-decade-old personal links is not an easy task compared to getting concepts and first timers howtos from the web. unfortunately, after spending minutes, most of them died without bidding their master goodbyes. amazing thoughts the internet world would be like this 2 decades ago. some of them just got killed due to non-paying domain owners, others just went down dead being deleted from server brought about by outstanding and cancerous page inactivity disease...
this brought me into compiling few evolutionary moments, ideas, events and a couple of screen shots i might have as i am posting live while crawling some of them. nope not nerd mode and the bad cave is far from where i sitting now. am sure all those old sickening medieval pages will all die sooner or later, atleast i can republish 'em.
had my very first basic programming exposure and basically an unpaid enjoyable programming late 1988's. this was with my brother. we did some basic and challenging pixelite graphical ATARI-based game,spending hours and enjoyful moments with it as we were trying to produce a workable bumbleegame. we make use of native keyboard and joystick then to interact with this bumblee game. atari-based keyboards already comes with dumb cpu, internal cartridge-type storage disk and external cassette tape as a source for howtos and data storage. USA and japan introduced them. got my very first intel-based x86 machine - the PC AT286 year 1991. years passed by. reverse-engineering most of borland's tool was one of my time-wasting hobby during late night hours then. sidekick was really a helpful tool for most coders from college, was addicted to these TSRs and IRQs. combining C/Pascal with Assembly language leading me to meet Borland and Norton works. amazed of the basic IT world i am with those times. really thought having a screen where you issue mouse gestures like hover it with group icons and do your kungfu thing. great, lighting fast thoughts, twas already existing, windows 3 was already there, bill gates was receiving financials for his works and oh, norton works was integrating with windows already. things was just great and disappointing. oh well.
years after the fast lanes... some of them are forgotten amazing years. i would probably remember them by seconds for a few moments.
...im back.
my very first email registration happenned with
i remember i sent a couple of emails, and thats all.my www.yahoo.com email was born. i spend most of the time searching browsing, reading sites, information hungrinness was too much to bear that time as the less famous ms-dos OS was already dying that time.
first made publicly available personal simple page came from www.geocities.com, yahoo doesnt own them yet. a page very basic and simple. was just putting more of the sample pictures corner there and side here. dont have much memories of it as the page so slow i have to get back editing database structures before, and was just trying to get a feel of what would it looks like putting pix around the corners and stick-it-here-and-there stuff. spending some free time i guess. the connection was reallly slow.
this was the time when freaking mobiles were like more than 12 inches long and were like 2 kilos in weight! heeey, it was still with me, burried alive with my old forgotten boxes, still got $10USD bill with it as a souvenir though, so sad that MP3 doesnt exist yet.
as months and years went by, the longtitudes and temp. degree of earth changes, as years went away without a those moment reminding you every seconds of
the day, www.homestead.com
...
oops, my time is limited now.
these are some traces of my existence captured recently to remind me by. will add more screenshots from time to time.
life: got to go!
Second and Third Filipino atop Mt. Everest
Erwin “Pastor” Emata reached the top between 5:30 a.m. to 6 a.m., according to the reports, including one in which Emata himself was said to have radioed his camp to inform fellow mountaineers of his feat.
Emata’s achievement came a day after his partner, Leo Oracion, made the historic climb.
A third mountaineer, Romeo Garduce, was due to complete a hat-trick of ascents this week in a race to the top of the world's highest mountain that has engrossed the tropical Southeast Asian nation.
In Malacañang, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo said the entire nation was rejoicing with the successful climb of Emata and Oracion.
“The entire nation also shares the joy and pride of the First Philippine Mount Everest Expedition team led by Leo Oracion on their achievement. Even as we speak, we also heard news of the outstanding featof another Filipino, Erwin Pastor Emata,” said Arroyo in a statement.
“The conquest of the world's highest peak is a mark of Filipino excellence, perseverance, and courage in braving the hard trek of nation-building,” she added.
At the Senate, Pia Cayetano, Manuel Villar, and Richard Gordon issued separate congratulatory statements to the Everest mountaineers.
Cayetano, a sports enthusiast and member of the Philippine National Duathlon Team, said that the Everest conquest was "a testament to the Filipino's strength of will, stamina, and character.”
"The Everest conquest is akin to our country winning an Olympic Gold...(It) shows the world-class stuff that Filipino athletes are made of. With proper training and support, our athletes can conquer anything," she said.
“The perseverance and bravery of Filipino climbers show the whole world the Filipino's solid determination and indomitable spirit. Not even the highest mountain in the world is unconquerable when the Filipino sets his mind to conquering it,” Villar said.
In Senate Resolution 483, Gordon also congratulated team members Arturo T. Valdez, Ari Ben C. Sebastian, Fred B. Jamili, Regie Pablo, Florentino Jong Narciso, Karina Davondon, Juan Añonuevo, Levi Nahayangan, Larry Honoridez, Janet Belarmino, Ariel Ambayec, Noelle Wenceslao, Ted Guevarra, John Tronco, and Choi Aquino, who “risked their lives to bring honor to the country.”
Gordon also cited Garduce, Jon Villareal, and Dale Abenojar for their parallel efforts to scale Mount Everest.
Gordon said the climbers should be feted by the Senate "for their contribution in the history of our country and to the pride of the Filipino people."
“The climbers, who caused the setting of the Philippine flag at the apex of the mountain, worked hard in conditioning themselves for the climb,” he said.
At the House of Representatives, Bayan Muna Representatives Satur Ocampo, Teodoro Casiño, and Joel Virador; Anakpawis Representatives Crispin Beltran and Rafael Mariano; and Liza Maza of Gabriela filed House Resolution 1252 commending Oracion, Emata, Garduce, and the other Filipino mountaineers.
“Whereas, such feat of Oracion, Emata, Garduce, and other Filipino mountaineers showed the Filipino’s capacity to overcome insurmountable odds, a trait that is very important in confronting the huge national and social problems the nation now face,” the lawmakers said in the resolution.
“Whereas, such feat has been aptly welcomed with much rejoicing as a triumph of the entire nation and as an example of patriotism worthy of emulation by every Filipino,” they added.
Emata, 32, radioed his base camp at about 5:30 am Nepal time to report that he had reached the top, said expedition leader Art Valdez in a live interview with ABS-CBN television in Manila.
The Filipinos' base camp broke out in celebration when Emata sent in his radio report, he said.
"We were not even finished with the excitement and jubilation over the success of Leo Oracion yesterday," said Valdez.
"It shows our faith in the Filipino. The Filipino is great. Erwin and Leo proved this by reaching the top of Mount Everest," he added.
Earlier on Thursday, GMA Network’s “Flash Report” said Emata reached the peak at about 6:00 a.m.
Garduce is expected to reach the summit on Friday or Saturday, according to GMA Network, his main sponsors. Oracion and Emata had been part of a team sponsored by ABS-CBN.
Wednesday, April 19, 2006
chance of having a boy or a girl
Congratulations!
You have a 56% chance of having a boy. And you have a 43% chance of having a girl.
And Here's Why...
Friday, April 14, 2006
April 14, 1974
"It is the most expensive gemstone in the category of gemstones. The most auspicious diamond is one that is colourless with a blue tinge or one, which sprays blue, and red rays and is without black dots. The Diamond with a red or yellow hue or tinge is said to be beneficial and auspicious for kings, political leaders and administrators. The Diamond having a white hue is suitable for religious, social and spiritual works. The Diamond of yellow hue showers success and prosperity. The Diamond of black hue is suitable for people who are engaged in inferior jobs or professions. Women desiring birth of sons to them should wear an unblemished white Diamond having a slight black hue. The wearer of Diamond is protected from the bad influences of evil spirits, and snakebites. A defective or blemished Diamond causes great harm to its wearer. The Diamond with the shape of island, is white, destroys wealth and happiness, and the one with the black Yava destroys wealth. Other defects disturb mental peace and bring disasters and diseases."
Aries the Ram.
"The first horoscope identity would be Aries the Ram, the first sign of the zodiac, is the emergence of the sprouting seed. It is the pint of all beginnings. Aries is the outrushing force --sound and fury-- primitive self-expression -- the joy o f being. Its forcefulness is much like the ram which lowers its head and blindly charges. The Aries influence gives an adventurous, pioneering sprit, courage and a blunt and direct manner. The forcefulness of Aries is so strong that restrictions cannot be endured. Aries people are forever moving on to new projects, seldom completing the old ones. An Aries person inhibited by daily routine and a sedentary life is likely to eventually explode. The "me first" attitude of Aries can go to the extremes of selfishness, crudeness, egotistical attitudes and foolhardiness if it is not tempered by sensitivity to other and strong guiding ideals."
Silver Birth Color
Yellow is the monthly color of this very day, month and year. Now changed to Silver.
"You are imaginative and shy, but you like trying new things. You like to challenge yourself. You learn things easily, and like a romantic partner who is hard to get. Your love life is usually confusing. "
Date of Event.
It was Easter Sunday last 1974,
But now, its Holy Friday this year 2006.
Year of the Tiger.
"Tiger people are sensitive, given to deep thinking, capable of great sympathy. They can be extremely short-tempered, however. Other people have great respect for them, but sometimes tiger people come into conflict with older people or those in authority. sometimes Tiger people cannot make up their minds, which can result in a poor, hasty decision or a sound decision arrived at too late. They are suspicious of others, but they are courageous and powerful. Tigers are most compatible with Horses, Dragons, and Dogs."
Favorite Fancy Number.
Thirty three.
Age.
Access Denied!
application in life:
interesting, i just learned that we all are living at the wrong date of time, a mistake done between BC and AD transition, which is suppossedly 5 years earlier of any current year!
happy birthday to me!
Thursday, April 13, 2006
The Lost Gospel of Judas
Interesting, as it sounds like the hidden codes of the bible, but it is not. It may boggle your beliefs and old-kwowings as it is really one of the most significant biblical findings of the century. Not advisable to read, but wonderfully knowing the facts and basis.
Read on, copied below is a brief summary from the link I have just received and personally watched from the net.
The National Geographic Society has been part of an international effort, in collaboration with the Maecenas Foundation for Ancient Art and the Waitt Institute for Historical Discovery, to authenticate, conserve, and translate a 66-page codex, which contains a text called James (also known as First Apocalypse of James), the Letter of Peter to Philip, a fragment of a text that scholars are provisionally calling Book of Allogenes, and the only known surviving copy of the Gospel of Judas.
The Gospel of Judas gives a different view of the relationship between Jesus and Judas, offering new insights into the disciple who betrayed Jesus. Unlike the accounts in the canonical Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, in which Judas is portrayed as a reviled traitor, this newly discovered Gospel portrays Judas as acting at Jesus' request when he hands Jesus over to the authorities....
application in life:
you never know what you gonna get every second of the day, it can be a drop of rain or a static electricity from your door knob. cheers!
Friday, March 31, 2006
Total Solar Eclipse
I saw it around 1049AM GMT+1. It was spectacular and amazing. A few hours before lunch break, lights begins to fade out as if the sun was swallowed by a big whale shark dumping him in the dark blue below the seas, never again to be seen.
Nope, it was not the end of the world!
The eclipse lasted over 4 minutes at maximum and visible by millions of people over a path up to 190km wide, CNN said.
Any cultural signs. Oh, that was long time during mediaval times.
You have a copy it?
Nope, I didn't find the time to digitally capture it.
Again and when?
This spectacular event would happen again by June 2008 again in EuroAsia. The next total eclipse of the Sun in mainland Europe is in 2026.
I was just late to blog it. So watch out for it next time...
motions:
spectacular events refreshes life's candy eyes...
Monday, March 20, 2006
FC5 officially released
Most awaited linux distro is now officially released.
200 GMT, March 20, 2006.
Fedora Core 5.
I am currently downloading the 386 DVD version of it from here:
http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/5/i386/iso/
DVD labels can be found here:
http://586z.wox.org/~foxkm/FC5/Fedora%205%20x86_DVD.jpg
Enjoy and have fun!
application in life:
insert the DVD and do your kungfu !
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Philippine medical open-source project - finalist in Stockholm Challenge
The Stockholm Challenge Award is an annual competition for the best initiatives that accelerate the use of information technology for the social and economic benefit of citizens and communities. Its objective is to help local entrepreneurs who work to close the digital divide by bringing in research communities, development organisations and strong corporate initiatives.
CHITS is one of the five Filipino finalists in this year's competition. The other finalists are: the Art Experience, Project Ryan (Hot City Wireless), Rice Knowledge Bank, and Young MDG.
CHITS was first rolled out in a pilot program in Pasay City. It gives doctors, nurses, midwives and barangay health workers access to data for critical decision-making.
The system stores treatment history, immunization records, consultation appointments, and Philhealth membership of patients for easy organization and retrieval. It also gives an integrated view for their program frontliners, particularly those involved in tuberculosis, vaccination, maternal care, and child care.
CHITS also forms part of the stream of information that begins with data collection by midwives and health workers, traverses the provincial and regional health offices, and ends with the Department of Health. It helps with policy development and decision-making processes as to what programs to roll out and what resources to allocate.
CHITS was funded largely by PANASIA-ICT, a collaboration between UNDP and IDRC of Canada. The systems developed within the project context is in the public domain as free and open source software (GNU GPL). Dr. Alvin Marcelo, one of the proponents of CHITS, was selected as Ten Outstanding Young Men of the Philippines for his contributions to the project. The CHITS web site can be visited at http://www.chits.info.
The winners of the Stockholm Challenge Awards will be announced on May 11, 2006. Its web site can be visited at http://www.stockholmchallenge.se.
Monday, March 13, 2006
delayed Fedora Core Linux 5
"Due to circumstances outside of our control, we're going to be unable tokeep to the scheduled date of March 15th for the release of FC5 and instead are going to have to make the release date Monday, March 20th.While unfortunate in some ways, this gives us the opportunity to pull inthe final GNOME 2.14 tarballs which should be available on Mondayassuming the changes are suitably minor."
Sadly, the above was a notice email coming from RedHat mailing list sent by Jeremy Katz.
Due to long hour recompilation and at the same time, which may or may not include latest version of Gnome which was set to be released on or before 20th of March fortunately.
Based from FC5 test 2 release, you will enormously feel the BIG screen show-off difference. The way mouse moves and interacts, puppy updater, early-boot login, suspend mode, active directory, SELinux, added and modified ATI/NVidia video drivers, bluetooth, PCI and wifi native drivers and more bleeding-edge and razor-sharp technology apps to come!
Moreover, the mailing list and forum are really growing bigger and higher in numbers.
application in life:
pick up the pieces of the past versions and move on with anew life version :)
Friday, March 10, 2006
achieved $5500 US dollar
free open-source CMS
Open Source
Content Management System
this free CMS would greatly contribute to linux communities and developers.
i was just evaluating some of them and profoundly amazed by what these tools can provide website content administrator and developer. Be it static or dynamic, it should serve as a good starting run-away point.
some names are
Drupal - www.drupal.org
Joomla - www.joomla.org
free open-source community had served a lot and achieved more than what have been imagined and expected until now by people.
FOSS, GPL, GNU and linux plays happily together.
application in life:
a. atleast you pay cheaper money on private hospital since they are using free medical software and tools developed and driven by community.
b.your clock, watch, laptops, PDAs, routers, mobile phones and more are more stable, reliable and cheaper too because of these open-source software and platforms...
and more ..
Wednesday, March 8, 2006
free stuff from Micro$oft
Have you heard of the big-evil giant bird giving away first aid help to small-poor ants?
I have nothing to post really as the time has always been filled up by my no non-sense mind-tiring never-ending daily routine job.
So, where's the free ones?
Hold your horses. IT IS STILL FREE from Micro$oft.
Get these Visual Tools FREE of CHARGE here :
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/support/install/
..while supply lasts. (maybe it was mistake link !)
application in life:
When that link goes down, you can start selling it for cheaper price as a memorabillia!
Thursday, March 2, 2006
growing up
First Day in the world, seeing your parents for the first time. Everything is cool and everything is just fine. Mommy is happy Daddy is proud; they been waiting nine months to see their first child.
You learn to walk, you start to talk, and your learning new things. Your parents see you growing up and all the talents you bring, The world sees you as a trouble maker because of the color of your skin. But your family sees you differently because they see what's within.
You're a teenager now you think you know it all. You drive, you date, you smoke and drink. You think your parents are Lost. You don't realize your another statistic in the world today. And you overlook the pain you caused and the love your friends and family portray.
The world laughs in your face because of a little 'fun' that got you in jail. Little do you know the road your on only leads to hell. Your Parents are praying that you get your act together. So you can be caught up and live with Jesus forever.
Mom and Dad have been fasting and praying that you get back on track. And after two years of time the Lord finally brought you back. You thanked your family for all there prayers. And then thanked the Man who lives upstairs.
It was your PRAYING family that brought you out. They had faith in you and lost no doubt. They stuck by you through think and thin; and let the Lord step right in. He took control of you one night he gave you strength and gave your might. He gave you a gift that no human can give and promised you life so that you can live.
After years of heartache, sin, and frustration you decided to walk with God and become an inspiration. You talk to young children who are headed on the wrong path. You teach them to Pray, read the Bible, and to Fast. You told them who you once were and who you became to be. And they learned that a Praying family can help set you free.
'Behold, I tell you a mystery; we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed.'
by Anonymous...
(searched from Google)
Saturday, February 25, 2006
state of emergency declaration
23 February 2006.
Twenty years. The last time this tremendous and colosal unity of public defiance members, allies, opportunist politicians and leftis, medias, local citizens, military and rebels successfully and eventually overthrew ex-president Ferdinand E. Marcos, his family and righthands- that was Feb 1986.
Again, this time around was not for a masculine president. It was an unconfirmed plot to overthrow current president Gloria Macapagal-Arryo (GMA) - daughter of late ex-president Diosdado Macapagal.
State of emergency was declared.
Media, journalist and publicist are being upholded their rights contributing to Freedom of Press civil rights.
Rallies in EDSA Shrine. Malacanang Palace.
What more do we need? What future behold Philippines islands?
Citizen's deaths and casualties vs presidential supreme sacrifice?
Remind's me of an old phrase.
"When two big elephants fight each other whatever the cause is, it is the grass that suffers the most."
Considering these haze and quarrels, political unstability, economic uncertainty, mere politicals facts and opinions, still I am proud to say, I am Filipino.
Dollar to peso exchange rate now is $1 = P52.1 . Six months ago it was P55.9 .
Would continue listening to CNN and BBC broadcast. Goodness, WWW updates us a lot.
Thursday, February 23, 2006
embedded spam code
yes, it was an embedded spam code.
you will receive it from your eboxes. at first, it looks like text-based email, but it's not. it was an image representing codes, letters and drugs, on which the recipient might be familiar of. no wonder an elementary grade student can read it for you easily, atleast half of its content.
so where is the hidden code anyway? how and where to find it?
try to highlight the email content first and copy, fire up your favorite text editor and paste it there, walaah! the hidden codes is there shown in different text format! which were apparently different from the time when you were viewing it before from your mail client a few minutes ago. just incase you failed with the copy and paste command, check the below pasted equivalent hidden spam code:
X s a m n y a d x c V x I n A g G t R c A w V i A l L r l g U d M u C x I s A a L k I v S w A h m b b b i m e z n u http://www.herbextras.com
at the right is the captured image. interesting though.
application in life?
what was the force and numbers behind building the great pyramids of egypt? is there hidden codes there?
only in the twilight zone....
Friday, February 17, 2006
my blogspot redefined
riday. No good cable shows. No good local TV. and no good CNN news either!
Went back to play Battle of Realms, race Wolf this time but faster game speed, resources and more enemies!
Am defeated again.
Oh well, back to Need for Speed Underground, non-career race track this time.
I was defeated by Wolf clan.
Time to redefine my blogspot now.
Colors and themes, it make take a while as am still recalling some CSS commands, arg. The possibilities and effects of incorporating it with blogspot.com dynamic pages.
This may take a while.
Happy weekend!
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
alternative web browser
Firefox, Mozilla, Opera, Avant, Netscape, Safari, SeaMonkey, Icab. You heard the names. You may have tried one or tried switching to another one and realized you have the same feeling of browsing the web using it. You think it does not matter what browser you are using - it really does.
Why should you care?
Viruses, trojan horses, spyware, adware, spams, keyloggers, security, will tell you why.
Fortunately, there are lots of browsers you can choose from as of this date. They are far better, more secure and more flexible to use with. Most of leading rivals are now cross-platform. Similar features you can notice from them are:
Tabbed browsing
Modern web pages with HTML, CSS, SSL, and JavaScript
Cookies and cookie management
Plugins and Java Ad blocking and/or pop-up blocking
Download Managers
Integrated Search
Favorites/Bookmarks and import
and more security.
Solution?
If one browser firesup one level from another browser to keep up with market share, all browsers improve and everybody wins.
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
Valentine is a Day
February is known as the love month, St. Valentine’s Day being celebrated annually every 14th day of this month.
Happy D day for all Valentines!
New Picasa version
Google and Codeweavers are now working hand in hand to bring Picasa in Linux.
Images, pictures and more in Linux will be much more beautiful and more organized.
Imagine the continuous fight and struggle of Google to, one step at a time, place the G word every major thing in our sytem. This will come soon in both worlds.
However, I have also heard that it will run under Wine. Wine is an open-source technology that provide Windows API (Application Programmer's Interface). Wine is definitely not an emulator.
It serves as a middleware API for windows program like M$ Office to be executed and run under Linux OS with slowing it down and interfering it. In fact, WINE is faster than XP!
But not everybody uses it.
Tuesday, February 7, 2006
FC5T2 - Fedora Core 5 Test 2
i thought it would be interesting to see a review of this upcoming fedora core 5 final release, hopefully by march 15, 2006.
a new logo as you can see.
infinity + fedora + voice = the new logo.
i was one of the first ones to download FC4 final release the first day it was officially released.am planning to dowload FC5 final the first day it will be officially released. there would be like 7 to 10 days extensions, as i heard that there is need for major recompilation with gcc .
not against ubuntu:
ubuntu is really good for beginners and window$ professionals. however, after dloading the DVD version and ordering the free CD, the more time i spent with it (ubuntu linux),the less interest i had with it. i felt like getting back to XP machines from clicking and moving around with it...something like my hands were missing stuff from the keyboard. yes, it was really good and nice for desktops and laptops for beginners i may say i would recommend it for desktops and laptops for newbies and noobs.
so how do i feel about fedora?
well fedora is powerful yet unpolished server os that contains thousands of libraries and applications,
which makes it powerful but daunting. it has the potential when it comes to secure, reliable and stable bleeding-edge linux distro. i may have some compains with it as it is not yet a user friendly one to everybody, wherein you can put it besides the Window$ XP box in a store sale, no newbies or noobs would grab it and am sure a techie would give a copy or download it for you. redhat developers focuses on stability and reliability of an OS. looks and art designs arent yet their priority as most icons, images, and default themes havent improved yet,except for the bluetheme curve, which is the default nice theme though. but hey, most users needs friendly OS for first times. another one, NTFS/FAT is not automatically mounted nor recognized on default installation. security is a pirce of crappy excuse for me. most of us cannot be contented with a single distro as the OS comparison terms would not exists then. but ever since i have it, i have achieved a better OS after redhat, much more relaible, stable, update manageability and bleeding-edge linux distro.
all in all, i am sticking with it as server.
as free linux distro. see more of Fedora Core Linux here http://fedora.redhat.com
victory is mine - manny pacquiao
i must be late to blog about the championship between mr. manny pacquiao and mr. eric morales for the second time. mr. morales was totally knocked-down in the 10th round,
as i saw from replay last sunday morning here with supersports 1 channel.
imagine that, another fight from both of them this year end for the third time!
this proves another fame and triumph for filipino around the world,
regardless of personal boxing interest...
hmmm...wonder if he was still with old management, would he still achieve the same outcome???
nevertheless, congratulations mr. pacman! keep it up!
Wednesday, February 1, 2006
registered linux counter
Recent post reminds me of my linux counter http://i18n.counter.li.org/cgi-bin/runscript/display-person.cgi?user=338623
statistics shows daily counter increases amazingly, which has always been a threat to leading monopoly, since the age of Linuz Torvalds.
you can check it out more with http://uptime.netcraft.com. statistics shows 68% of webserver are now being served by apache. see it here http://news.netcraft.com/archives/web_server_survey.html
Folding at Home
Recent post reminds me of my linux counter http://i18n.counter.li.org/cgi-bin/runscript/display-person.cgi?user=338623
statistics shows daily counter increases amazingly, which has always been a threat to leading monopoly, since the age of Linuz Torvalds.
you can check it out more with http://uptime.netcraft.com. statistics shows 68% of webserver are now being served by apache. see it here
Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Goobuntu OS
Is google developing their own OS?
Google had denied many things in the past.
I still remember they were denying Google IM, now called Google Talk. They were also denying stocks share 2 years ago, google talk, google map and more other things.
The rumors said, the OS will be based with Ubuntu OS. It would be used internally for them but there is a possibility, that it would also be launched publicly along with the google browser like AOL browser and google chat. thse are unproven rumors still.
whatever Google plans to have, is for to me to wait.
defeating captcha
it is not an easy one. you would need some drawing combined with programming skills
plus artificial intelligence applied. worst, for every new captcha image created,
another module to be created, so the list goes on.
this one is harder to decode.
a few made it, google led me to some captcha decoder..
but major maintenance and support needed for every new algorithm of this captcha-image generator emerges. a good AI approach will bring in money for this one i guess...
fewer than brief
Brief spot:
few places i have lived
1. quiapo
2. sampaloc
3. project 8
4. antipolo city
5. las pinas city
6. alabang
7. bataan
always visited websites
1. provincial site
2. city site
3. google and yahoo
4. redhat and fedora linux sites
5. some job sites from time to time
few movies able to watch over and over again
1. unforgiven
2. young guns
3. godfather 1,2,& 3
few classic games enjoyed most
1. pacman
2. river raider
smiling ideas
1. lebanese bread with hot strong black coffee
2. mango juice and cigarettes
3. brandy and medicines
4. summer breeze
5. spring rice field dawns
few fave foods
1. hot and spicy ones of any
2. real hot and fast foods
3. spagetti and fast noodles
still doing
1. fighting boredom and homesickness
2. getting more of the keyboard and screen interaction
3. driving single motors and snipping fresh air
if i have $1M dollar to spend in luxury within 7 days
1. would buy a harley davidson's big bike i saw in dubai
2. would bring my family and have a visit to mysterious countries like
jerusalem, egypt again, india, morocco, mexico, a few italy and china perhaps
3. visit wonder hotels and beaches
favorite keyboard function keys
1. F5 and enter keys
2. shift+inser and shift+delete keys
3. ctrl+U and ctrl+A
enjoys me most aside from family
1. motorcycling
2. computers
3. WWW
4. sunsets
four numbers i have
1. 33
2. 4
3. 14
4. 24
most clicked messengers
1. YM
2. GAIM
3. chikka
channel most showed in TV screen
1. seven (7)
...
will add more from time to time...
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